Dr Shahidha Bari, BA PhD (Cambridge) MA (London)
Lecturer
Location: Arts email: s.bari@qmul.ac.uk
Phone: 020 7882 8528
Website: http://www.htlblog.com/
Shahidha Bari works in the fields of literature, philosophy and politics, with special interests in the Romantic period and the ideas of ethical subjectivity that emerge from it. Her current research examines the idea of interiority that emerges from Romantic writing, and specifically considers the legacy of the Romantic engagement with Islam and the East, through an exploration of early English translations of the Arabian Nights, nineteenth-century Islamic art and the British literature of Romantic Orientalism.
Her first book, Keats and Philosophy explored the range of Keats’s poetic mediations on friendship, mortality, nature, travel and war, presenting a reappraisal of the poet and casting him as a figure of serious philosophical interest warranting renewed attention in a contemporary age.
Shahidha's work considers how philosophical frameworks supplement literary study and how literary scholarship bears upon the terms of contemporary political life. She has keen interests in aesthetics and the philosophical theorisations of subjectivity, and has previously written about the philosophers Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy.
She also writes about architecture and modern art, and is a co-founder of the intellectual salon, How to Live. She is a member of the editorial board of New Formations: a journal of culture/theory/politics, and is one of ten AHRC BBC Radio 3 'New Generation Thinkers' selected in 2011.
Publications:
Selected
Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations, (Routledge, 2011)
‘Being in the Care of Philosophy: Thinking about Rachel Corrie’, New Formations, 70, (Winter 2010), 7-22
'Lyrics and Love Poems: Poems to Sophia Stacey, Jane Williams and Mary Shelley', The Oxford Handbook of Shelley Studies, eds. Michael O’Neill and Anthony Howe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010)
‘Feeling Friendship: On Keats’s ‘This Living Hand’ and the Sonnets to the Elgin Marbles’, The Interpreter’s Hand: Essays on Meaning after Theory, eds. E. Jarosinski and M. Mitrano, (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2008)
Contributer to The Encyclopaedia of Literary and Cultural Theory eds. R. Eaglestone, M. Ryan, G. Castle, M.K. Booker MK (Oxford: Blackwell, 2010)
‘Living On After Derrida’ in Naked Punch Supplement to Issue 11 (Autumn 2008), 7-10
Co-founder and contributor to How to Live. Recent features include: ‘How to Live’, ‘On Justin Coombes’ Eden’, ‘Rothko’s Religion’, ‘On Richter’s Betty and Ella’, ‘How to Live after Derrida and Darwish’.